Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heaviest Army casualties were during the concentrated and furious period of the Normandy invasion. D-day also marked the beginning of a sharp ascent (see chart) which continued to mount as the fighting raged closer to Germany's borders. U.S. Army casualties in Europe from D-day to Jan. 1, said Stimson, have been 54,562 dead, 232,672 wounded, 45,678 missing. The Secretary could have added, had he been so minded, that while the casualties on Normandy beaches were lower than the most optimistic had guessed, the total as of Jan. 1, 1945 was substantially higher than...
Gumbinnen was an incident in the blows of the hammer swung by Marshal Ivan Chernyakhovsky on Insterburg, north and east of Rokossovsky's sickle. Through the snows that covered the wooded Junker estates the Russians met furious resistance, ground it down by sheer weight. In Gumbinnen, every house had to be taken. There was a reason: seven of every ten German defenders were men born in East Prussia. There most of them died...
Lord Invader's ditty caught on with the U.S. troops, who bellowed it lustily in Trinidad's barracks and cafes. For more than a year Coca-Cola's local branch failed to notice the song's commercial potentialities; then they suddenly caught on and made furious attempts to obtain the rights to the song. But by then the Trinidad rights had been sewed up and the song imported to the U.S. by an up-&-coming radio funnyman named Morey Amsterdam...
...Last, Airplanes. At week's end the 30th Infantry and 82nd Airborne delivered a massive blow at the German bulge northwest of Saint-Vith. The enemy reaction was instant and furious : the Yanks were rocked back by counterattacks with infantry and tanks. But U.S. troops took the blow, and shoved forward again. The weather cleared at last, and a huge swarm of Allied fighter bombers set out to smash the enemy columns on the roads. It was good hunting, though probably too late to inflict more than superficial wounds. Even when the Yanks cut the main highway between Houffalize...
When 1944 as a year of production has receded to a position of a mere statistical measuring stick, it may become famous as a year of economic thought. The unfulfilled promise of peace set off a furious wave of planning. Those who make the U.S. economy what it is-businessmen and labor leaders, primarily, and, secondarily, government officials and economists -were forced to face up to three problems...